Letter: Fire ban should not be lifted

I’m shocked and frustrated about the lifting of the fire ban in southeast Utah. I just don’t understand. We are still in an extreme and exceptional drought. The area I live in did not get a monsoon season this year, nor did we get one in 2017. There are areas all over southeast Utah that haven’t received any substantial precipitation in almost two years; the area I live in is one of those. The pinyon/juniper forest is having a mass die-off, pinyons dying at an alarming rate, ju